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March
17, 2003 |
Lally School’s Entrepreneurship
Program Named One of the Nation’s Top 25
Entrepreneur
magazine has named the technological entrepreneurship program at
Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management and Technology one
of the 25 best entrepreneurial programs in the nation. The magazine’s
“Top 100 Entrepreneurial Colleges and Universities”
feature is slated for the April 2003 issue, which will appear on
newsstands March 25.
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Rensselaer was lauded for fostering
entrepreneurship through its faculty research and publications,
Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship, Office
of Technology Commercialization, and the nation’s first
on-campus business incubator.
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More than 700 entrepreneurship programs were researched
for the piece. Final listings were based on more than 30 criteria,
including curriculum, teaching and research faculty, degrees and
certificates offered, research centers and institutes, advisory
boards, and business-community outreach.
Rensselaer was lauded for fostering entrepreneurship
through its faculty research and publications, Severino Center
for Technological Entrepreneurship, Office of Technology Commercialization,
and the nation’s first on-campus business incubator. The
Lally School’s MBA program also provides students with significant
opportunities to interact with an extensive network of successful
entrepreneurs and to participate in venture capital presentations.
“Rensselaer has a long track record of success
in providing its students the skills they need to take their ideas
and technologies to market,” said Denis Fred Simon, dean
of Rensselaer’s Lally School. “Our ‘techno-MBA
program’ channels the passion and energy of our students,
and helps them develop new ideas and concepts into commercially
relevant products and services. What differentiates Lally is our
first-year MBA course, Design, Marketing and Manufacturing, which
allows students the opportunity to develop, market, and create
their own products and services.”
The complete list will be available online March
21 at http://www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges.
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